Arthur Henry Anstey (187313 November 1955) was

Bishop of Trinidad and Tobago The Anglican Diocese of Trinidad and Tobago is the administrative structure grouping together Anglicans in the nation of Trinidad and Tobago under a bishop. It is one of eight dioceses of the Church in the Province of the West Indies. As of 2009, ...

from 1918 until 1945; and for his last two years there

Archbishop of the West Indies The Archbishop of the West Indies is the Anglican primate of the Province of the West Indies, part of the worldwide Anglican Communion. History The West Indies became a self-governing province of the Church of England in 1883, when William Pie ...

(primate of all the

Church in the Province of the West Indies The Church in the Province of the West Indies is one of 40 member provinces in the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church comprises eight dioceses spread out over much of the West Indies area. The present position of Archbishop and Primate of th ...

). Anstey was educated at

Charterhouse School (God having given, I gave) , established = , closed = , type = Public school Independent day and boarding school , religion = Church of England , president ...

and

Keble College, Oxford Keble College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its main buildings are on Parks Road, opposite the University Museum and the University Parks. The college is bordered to the north by Keble Road, t ...

. After graduation, he was

ordained Ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the denominational hierarchy composed of other clergy) to perform var ...

in 1898 and began his ecclesiastical career with curacies at

Aylesbury Aylesbury ( ) is the county town of Buckinghamshire, South East England. It is home to the Roald Dahl Children's Gallery, David Tugwell`s house on Watermead and the Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, Waterside Theatre. It is in central Buckinghamsh ...

and Bedminster. From 1904 he was principal of

St Boniface Missionary College, Warminster St Boniface College, Warminster, formerly St Boniface Missionary College, was an Anglican educational institution in the Wiltshire town of Warminster, England during the last third of the 19th century and the first two-thirds of the 20th. It was ...

and after that (until his appointment to the

episcopate A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of Episcopal polity, authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or offic ...

)

Chaplain A chaplain is, traditionally, a cleric (such as a minister, priest, pastor, rabbi, purohit, or imam), or a lay representative of a religious tradition, attached to a secular institution (such as a hospital, prison, military unit, intellige ...

Proctor Swaby William Proctor Swaby FRGS (184416 November 1916) was a colonial Anglican bishop from 1893 until 1916. Born in Tetney, Swaby was educated at Durham University, where he won the Barry Scholarship. He eventually gained a doctorate in Divinity He ...

Bishop of Barbados The Diocese of Barbados is one of eight dioceses of the Anglican Communion that is part of the Province of the West Indies. History The diocese was established in 1824 as one of a pair, the other being the Diocese of Jamaica, which covered the ...

. There is a school named after Anstey in

Port of Spain Port of Spain ( Spanish: ''Puerto España''), officially the City of Port of Spain (also stylized Port-of-Spain), is the capital of Trinidad and Tobago and the third largest municipality, after Chaguanas and San Fernando. The city has a munic ...

.The History of Bishop Anstey Junior School
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1873 births People educated at Charterhouse School Alumni of Keble College, Oxford Anglican bishops of Trinidad and Tobago 20th-century Anglican bishops in the Caribbean Anglican archbishops of the West Indies 20th-century Anglican archbishops Commanders of the Order of the British Empire 1955 deaths {{Anglican-bishop-stub